BOULDER, CO— New video footage released Wednesday reveals the moment when illegal alien Mohamed Sabry Soliman set himself on fire as he hurled a Molotov-cocktail improvised incendiary device during what the Department of Justice described as an "anti-Semitic" terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.
The footage released on Fox & Friends and shot by Alex Osante, a California tourist, shows Soliman igniting the device and throwing it, sending flaming liquid flying over his right arm and engulfing him momentarily in flames. As previously reported by Law Enforcement Today, Soliman, an Egyptian national, was witnessed hurling additional Molotov cocktails into a pro-Israel protest while screaming “Free Palestine.”
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Osante told reporters that he was eating at a nearby Italian restaurant near the Boulder Pedestrian Mall when he heard a “big boom” and moments later saw a woman “on fire from head to toe, on fire,” according to The Daily Mail. A bystander approached moments later, grabbing two bottles of water from his table to douse some of the 12 victims injured in the attack.
“People were screaming and yelling … tripping over each other,” Osante said. “The terrorist had a Molotov cocktail in his hand. He had two other bottles, and he threw a bottle at the group, and a lady caught on fire from head to toe – fully immersed in fire. And then the other few people, maybe four others, were also on fire – but not as bad,” he said.
Soliman was charged with “hate crime offenses involving actual or perceived race, religion, or national origin,” per 18 U.S.C. § § 249(a)(1) and (a)(2).
"The Department of Justice has swiftly charged the illegal alien perpetrator of this heinous attack with a federal hate crime and will hold him accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement released alongside the announcement of charges against Soliman. “Our prayers are with the victims and our Jewish community across the world.”
“This vile anti-Semitic violence comes just weeks after the horrific murder of two young Jewish Americans in Washington, D.C. We will never tolerate this kind of hatred. We refuse to accept a world in which Jewish Americans are targeted for who they are and what they believe," she added.
The footage released on Fox & Friends and shot by Alex Osante, a California tourist, shows Soliman igniting the device and throwing it, sending flaming liquid flying over his right arm and engulfing him momentarily in flames. As previously reported by Law Enforcement Today, Soliman, an Egyptian national, was witnessed hurling additional Molotov cocktails into a pro-Israel protest while screaming “Free Palestine.”
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Osante told reporters that he was eating at a nearby Italian restaurant near the Boulder Pedestrian Mall when he heard a “big boom” and moments later saw a woman “on fire from head to toe, on fire,” according to The Daily Mail. A bystander approached moments later, grabbing two bottles of water from his table to douse some of the 12 victims injured in the attack.
“People were screaming and yelling … tripping over each other,” Osante said. “The terrorist had a Molotov cocktail in his hand. He had two other bottles, and he threw a bottle at the group, and a lady caught on fire from head to toe – fully immersed in fire. And then the other few people, maybe four others, were also on fire – but not as bad,” he said.
Soliman was charged with “hate crime offenses involving actual or perceived race, religion, or national origin,” per 18 U.S.C. § § 249(a)(1) and (a)(2).
"The Department of Justice has swiftly charged the illegal alien perpetrator of this heinous attack with a federal hate crime and will hold him accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement released alongside the announcement of charges against Soliman. “Our prayers are with the victims and our Jewish community across the world.”
“This vile anti-Semitic violence comes just weeks after the horrific murder of two young Jewish Americans in Washington, D.C. We will never tolerate this kind of hatred. We refuse to accept a world in which Jewish Americans are targeted for who they are and what they believe," she added.
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